"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was."
Milan Kundera, whose dissident writings in communist Czechoslovakia transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism, has died in Paris at the age of 94.
Kundera’s renowned novel, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’’ opens wrenchingly with Soviet tanks rolling through Prague, the Czech capital that was the author’s home until he moved to France in 1975.
Author Milan Kundera, who was most famous for his 1984 novel, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," died yesterday at the age of 94. Here are some of his most memorable quotes from interviews and articles over his long career.
"Çoğu insanı ölüm konusunda dehşete düşüren şey geleceğin kaybı değil, geçmişin kaybıdır. Aslında unutmak, hayatın içinde her zaman var olan bir ölüm biçimidir. Ölümün farkına varmak bir uyanış deneyimi, büyük hayat değişiklikleri için güçlü bir katalizördür. " #MilanKundera
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Milan Kunderas tragikomische Liebesgeschichten bewegten viele Menschen und wurden in alle Weltsprachen übersetzt. Weltberühmt wurde der Schriftsteller mit dem Roman "Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins". Nun ist Kundera gestorben.
Ci scommetto le palle che i giornalisti avranno usato, per il necrologio, qualche calembour sul suo titolo più famoso, "L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere".
Perché ricordiamolo, "iL pAyWaLl TuTeLa L'iNfOrMaZiOnE dI qUaLiTà"